Setting Boundaries

The halo effect influences how you judge others. Just because someone has a single positive trait doesn't mean you should form a favourable opinion of them. Conversely, just because they have a single negative quality doesn't mean you should form a negative impression.

People who are overloaded will have a strong impulse to avoid or escape anxiety:

• Avoidance could mean putting off a discussion with your boss.
• Escape could mean rushing into an important decision, because you want to escape needing to think about it further.

Unexpected surprises will crop up and threaten to throw your whole project out of scope and off schedule. In those moments, you’ll be glad that you identified your trade-offs early on. Your trade-offs allow you to see where you have the most wiggle room available in a project, should you need to ...